Having a tiny SD card with your camera or phone is great! But what if your card shows an error stating SD card won’t format Windows? Are the photos and videos stored on that card is gone forever?

Well, you are not alone…

When I had my digital camera, I suffered from a similar kind of situation. My heart was broken, 4GB of photos in the SanDisk SD card became inaccessible all of a sudden.

Luckily, I was able to fix this issue with the help of some simple solutions. My journey was not easy, though. It took lots of efforts to find fixes that actually worked out.

That is why the reason I decided to share this guide to resolve SanDisk SD card won’t format error in Windows 10/8/7, with relevant solutions.

Part 1: Recover data from SanDisk SD card that won’t format

Caution: If you saved important data on SD card when it becomes not formatted, your very first move is to extract and restore data from it. If you don’t have important data and just want to make your SD card workable again, just switch to part 2 and follow methods to fix it.

# 1. Change drive letter to make SD card recognizable

If the SD card is not recognized or not accessible in Windows 10/8/7, you should first make it recognizable. To do this, here is the procedure:

Now choose the drive representing SanDisk SD card that won’t be formatted. The tool will start a quick scan to find files
Preview and restore lost SD card data. You can preview found data by file types, select the required files and save them to another safe spot in PC/storage device

Well, I could say that these are the best methods to fix SanDisk SD Card Won’t Format Error in Windows 10/8/7 at present and most of the times they work well just like in my case. You can try these solutions above one after another and find the one works for you!

How to Fix the Error SanDisk SD Card Won’t Format in Windows was last modified: December 13th, 2017 by John Harris